{"product_id":"the-surveyors-poems-9781524732660","title":"The Surveyors: Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA beautiful new collection from Mary Jo Salter brings us poems of puzzlement and acceptance in the face of life''s surprises.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I''m still alive and now I''m in Bratislava,\" says the speaker of one of Salter''s poems, as she travels with her unlikely late-in-life love, a military man. She never expected to be here, to know someone like him, to be parted from her previous life; how did it happen? Time is hurtling, but these poems try to slow it down to examine its curious by-products--the prints of Dürer, an Afghan carpet, photographs of people we''ve lost. The title poem, a crown of sonnets, takes up key moments in the poet''s past, the quirky advent of poetic inspiration, and the seemingly sci-fi future of the universe. Throughout, in a tone of ironic wonderment, placing rich new love poems alongside some inevitable poems of leavetaking, Salter invites the reader to weigh and ponder the way things have turned out--for herself, for all of us--in this new century, and perhaps to conclude, as she does, \"That''s funny . . . \"","brand":"Random House USA Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49531640611159,"sku":"9781524732660","price":20.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781524732660.jpg?v=1731883839","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-surveyors-poems-9781524732660","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}